Big Data

March 25, 2014
Categories: College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, College Videos

This video highlights work done by Dr. Min Jiang, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Dr. Derek (Xiaoyu) Wang, Associate Director of the Charlotte Visualization Center, in creating new tools to study social media use in China. Funded by College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’s (CLAS) Digital Humanities Seed Grant, the TweetChina project explores through a Big Data approach how China is discussed and represented on Twitter. Selecting China-related tweets from billions of tweets archived by UNC Charlotte’s own Charlotte Visualization Center, this project develops a website to visually present large amounts of data in map, picture, text and event modes.